Paxes

Word PAXES
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Tribal violence commonly subsides when a state or empire imposes control over a territory, leading to the various "paxes" Romana, Islamica, Brittanica and so on that are familiar to readers of history. ❋ Steven Pinker (2011)

The other half get, as a group, a free ride (though there are individuals in this group that pay paxes, net, as a group, they do not). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Middle Ages ivory was extensively used for paxes (instrumenta pacis), tabernacles, portable altars, caskets, holy-water buckets, statuettes, rosary-beads, seals, and the decoration of ecclesiastical furniture. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I have seen of his some paxes in half relief, and some Christs a palm in length wrought of the thinnest golden plates, so exquisitely done that I esteemed him the greatest master in that kind I had ever seen, and envied him more than all the rest together. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

Among these are some very beautiful paxes in S. Giovanni, coloured by the action of fire, which are such that they could be scarcely improved with the brush; and some of his marvellous enamels may be seen in other churches in Florence, Rome, and other parts of Italy. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

For the same Pope Valerio made some most beautiful paxes, and a divine cross of crystal, and likewise dies for striking medals, containing the portrait of Pope Clement, with very beautiful reverses; and through him that art produced in his day many masters, both from Milan and from other parts, who had grown to such a number before the sack of Rome, that it was a marvel. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

a number of figures as he could, whether in a small or in a large space; as is still proved by certain paxes in the Church of S. Giovanni in ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

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